Trànsits

The company was created in 2019, when Jean and Paula finished the professional training of the circus school in Grenoble (France). They create their first show ‘Etrangers Etrangers‘ that deals with the fear of the unknown, the intolerance and the prejudices that each one has. With this show they have done more than 100 performances and, currently, continues to tour French and European festivals. At the moment they are in the process of creating a new piece ‘En Panne‘ (provisional title), in which the duo is accompanied by a musician.

‘En panne’

From a distant planet, a spacecraft has been sent to analyze other forms of life. During their journey, crew members have a problem and must land as soon as possible. Faced with a handful of curious looks, travelers find it difficult to establish communication with the local population, which is not familiar with their language. With so much incomprehension, they rush to repair the ship, but the sound that comes out from their machine begins to create an unforeseen link with the natives.

The contemporary circus collective “Būda” (Vílnius, Lituania) was created on the initiative of the juggler Kasparas Bujanauskas. The collective examines the similarities and differences between different art disciplines and tries to erase the boundaries between them. “Būda” team is not afraid to play, improvise and look for something that has not yet been discovered. The most important thing is being together and feeling each other on and off the stage.

Circus artist (Rogelio Rivel Circus School – 2016) and social teacher (University of Barcelona – 2013) by training, and by untraining, all the rest: investigator of the performative action and movement, driving force behind pedagogic projects with art as a transversal pivot, trainer, creator and highly interested in interdisciplinarity.

She studies with professors like: Mal Pelo, Hamza Benlabied, Andrés Corchero, Alexander Gavrilov and Semolina Tomic, amongst others.  In 2016 she cofounds the Cia. Capes (CAT) company, a hand-to-hand duo. In 2018 she becomes a co-founder and artist of the Ino Kollektiv (FR) female hand-to-hand collective, with which she currently works. Together with this collective, she forms part of a new circus, song and psychology project: Ekco (MX-IT-FR-ES) and another spontaneous circus and improv project about acrobalance: Improportes (FR-ES), together with another company: Kolektivo Konika. In 2022 she commences the personal research for the Cavitat f project.

Cavitat f.

Each body is a synthesis of his own history. Memory can be explicit when we can reasonably explain or describe a concrete experience, or implicit when the body reacts to experiences that cannot be processed by the mind. “Cavitat f.” is an artistic project that investigates the materialization of memory in the body, or in other words; embodied memories: everything that is recorded on the body as a movement, gesture, sound or posture in memory (mostly unconscious) of a concrete experience. The idea is to facilitate a work that puts the body in relation to the codification of these memories, to understand the forms and their learning processes, to see which ones and why they have been forgotten and if it is necessary to make them visible and perhaps resignify them. The project wants to observe how the context affects all this and also the relationship between two or more bodies and think how to generate collective body memories.

Picture: Helena Roig Prat